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 Maester Ballabar, by Mauro Dal Bo © Fantasy Flight Games | ||||
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| Title | Maester at the Arbor | |||
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| Born | Westeros[1] | |||
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Ballabar is the maester assigned to House Redwyne in the Arbor.
Appearance and Character
[edit]Ballabar has a round, pink face with a thin brown beard.[2] He is reportedly a gifted healer.[3]
Recent Events
[edit]A Clash of Kings
[edit]Maester Ballabar follows Lord Paxter Redwyne to King's Landing after the Battle of the Blackwater. At the request of Queen Regent Cersei Lannister, Ballabar is assigned the task of caring for Tyrion Lannister, who was seriously injured in the battle. Ballabar keeps Tyrion unconscious with milk of the poppy.[2]
After Tyrion wakes, he grabs Ballabar's chain and strangles him with it, releasing the links only when the maester's face begins to turn purple. Tyrion tells Ballabar he wants no more poppy, and against the maester's advice, makes Ballabar remove his bandages and show him his wounded face. Tyrion wishes to be taken from Maegor's Holdfast back to his rooms, but Ballabar has to inform him that his father, Lord Tywin Lannister, has taken up the apartments in the Tower of the Hand and the position of Hand of the King after returning to King's Landing and winning the Battle of the Blackwater.[2]
Because Tyrion suspects Ballabar received orders from Cersei to kill him, he tells his squire, Podrick Payne, to send Ballabar away and instead get dreamwine from Frenken, the Stokeworth maester.[2]
A Storm of Swords
[edit]During the royal wedding of King Joffrey I Baratheon to Margaery Tyrell, Ballabar treats a Dornishman after he is stabbed by a Rowan knight.[4]
After the death of Joffrey at his wedding, Ballabar and Frenken perform the autopsy that refutes the theory of the king's suffocation on the wedding pie. During the trial of Tyrion for the death of Joffrey, Ballabar is called as a witness for the prosecution to present the findings of the autopsy, and he declares that poison was used.[5]
A Feast for Crows
[edit]The small council of Queen Regent Cersei Lannister is informed by Ballabar about the health of Lancel Lannister, who was gravely wounded at the Blackwater.[6]
Ser Jaime Lannister, Lord Commander of the Kingsguard, has Ballabar ready with purges and antidotes for twenty common poisons in case there are any attempts to poison the young King Tommen I Baratheon during his wedding with Margaery Tyrell.[7]
Quotes by Ballabar
[edit]Do you thirst, my lord? I have your milk, your good milk. You must not fight, no, don't try to move, you need your rest.[2]
—Ballabar to Tyrion Lannister
Tyrion: Ballabar. Bring me. Looking glass.
Ballabar: My lord, I would not counsel ... that might be, ah, unwise, as it were ... your wound ...
Tyrion: Bring it. And drink. Wine. No poppy.[2]—Tyrion Lannister and Ballabar
Quotes about Ballabar
[edit]The maester bade him be very still as he slid the tip of the knife in under his chin, beneath the mask. A slip of the hand here, and Cersei will be free of me, he thought. He could feel the blade sawing through the stiffened linen, only inches above his throat. Fortunately this soft pink man was not one of his sister's braver creatures.[2]
—thoughts of Tyrion Lannister
Tywin: I visited your sickbed as often as Maester Ballabar would allow it, when you seemed like to die. Why did you dismiss Ballabar?
Tyrion: Maester Frenken is not so determined to keep me insensate.
Tywin: Ballabar came to the city in Lord Redwyne's retinue. A gifted healer, it's said. It was kind of Cersei to ask him to look after you. She feared for your life.[3]
References
[edit]- ↑ George R. R. Martin's A World of Ice and Fire, Ballabar.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 67, Tyrion XV.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 4, Tyrion I.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 60, Tyrion VIII.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 66, Tyrion IX.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 7, Cersei II.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 12, Cersei III.